Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses at Dartmouth on the native peoples of Alaska, on the Jewish diaspora, and on Russia. Next year—the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago—Dr. Kan will teach a course titled "Red Terror: The History and Culture of the Stalin Labor Camps." Dr. Kan has been kind enough to offer our viewers a preview of the seminar in advance.

Sergei Kan has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the 2022 Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and...

The William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology Deborah Nichols and Sergei Kan Professor of Anthropology and Native American studies were recognized for their 2017 publications.

Prof. Kan becomes a member of the Editorial Board of Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, Russia's leading anthropology journal....

Prof. Sergei Kan presented two papers at this conference. A biannual gathering, which brings together tribal elders, indigenous cultural preservation activists, and the general public (Native and Non-Native) with academic scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, linguistics, art, etc.

Prof. Kan was quoted in a recent New York Times article about the 150th anniversary of the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Professor Sergei Kan’s book A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska recently won the Joan Paterson Kerr Award for the best illustrated book on the American West by the Western History Association....

The New York Times highlights the work of Dartmouth’s Serge i A. Kan in a story about amateur photographer Vincent Soboleff, a Russian-American who captured images of the Tlingit community of Alaska during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....